My adventures in networking
I’ve spent the past week trying to get per subscriber shaping working on the Juniper MX. It took me a lot longer to get working than it should have done. My goal was to have a subscribers traffic shaped to 1Gbps that is terminated using a PPPoE session over an MPLS pseudowire. A lot of […]
Continue ReadingI’ve been playing with Ansible recently in order to push configuration out to the network, and have been interested in validating the state of the network both before and after a change. I came across Nick Russo’s excellent git repository which does just that. Testing the state of the network when changes are done manually […]
Continue ReadingI recently spent some time battling Juniper’s poor documentation in an attempt to get PPPoE subscriber termination within VPLS Pseudowire Subscriber Logical Interfaces. I tested this on an MX10003 running JunOS 19.1R3.9. The topology is fairly straight forwards. There is a CPE that is generating double tagged PPPoE frames towards the network. The intention is […]
Continue ReadingOverview The current methods of getting statistics out of the network equipment is to use SNMP. This can provide lots of in depth statistics about the health and status of the network. While this has worked fine for many years, it has its limitations. All statistics need to be collected and provided by the routing […]
Continue ReadingMTR is awesome, but in a recent update to the package in brew means that you need to sudo to use it. This is particularly a pain when you don’t run as an account that is able to sudo. In addition, a lot of the functionality of MTR has been moved out into the mtr-packet […]
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